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RE: factory discs?

To: "'spridgets@autox.team.net'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: factory discs?
From: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:53:30 -0500
Reply-to: Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Read Horler's book! You will never win this argument because there are
always exceptions to every rule. The "factory" did what clients,
dealers, and the Donald Healey Motor Company paid them to do. If it was
wires, you got wires! 

Daniel T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herb_Goede@amsinc.com [SMTP:Herb_Goede@amsinc.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 12:37 PM
> To:   Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott
> Cc:   Spridget List
> Subject:      Re: factory discs?
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> Angela,
> 
> That's what I thought but I've been told otherwise by some of the
> listers.
> I think Sebring offered such items too.  I'd love a definitive answer.
> 
> Anyone? Anyone?  Wade in.
> 
> Herb
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> "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com> on
> 03/12/99 05:56:45 AM
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> Please respond to "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott"
>       <toobmany@bigpond.com>
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> To:   "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> cc:    (bcc: Herb Goede/AMS/AMSINC)
> Subject:  factory discs?
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> 
> Au contraire
> 
> It's a small point but a wire wheel/ disc brake conversion was
> available
> from the Donald Healey Motor Company or Sprinzel as an aftermarket kit
> not
> as a BMC production item, unless there is information I don't have...
> 
> Peter Westcott
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> From: type79@ix.netcom.com
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net; Herb_Goede@amsinc.com
> Subject: Re: Green Green and more green
> Date: Friday, 12 March 1999 8:55
> 
> Herb,
> There WAS a rare factory wire wheel and disc brake option, but
> otherwise
> I agree with you about Clausager. I know he's in charge of the "Trust"
> but his book on Big Healeys, I think, leaves a lot to be desired.
> 
> Jay Fishbein, CT
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> On 03/11/99 14:21:31 you wrote:
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> >Gary,
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> >If Anders Clausager lists the ubiquitous BRG as the only green
> available on
> >an an5 I would tend not to trust any of the other information
> available
> >from this source.  (To set the record straight, they weren't
> available
> with
> >factory wire wheels, leather upholstery, or air conditioning either.)
> >
> >Herb
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